Hello everyone, If you are free this Thursday 18th of February, do join the demonstration at Exeter county hall, on Topsham road at 1.45pm. We want to ask the council to reconsider their decision to stop funding school crossing patrols. If you have a Facebook account, find more details here and feel free to check in: https://www.facebook.com/events/754264114707332 It's going to be fun as protestors are planning to wear, for those who have one, a high visibility jacket (like the ones you use when you go cycling) and we will have lollipop sweets to hold (and eat). Children are of course welcome! Do bring a pack of lollipops (the sweets) if you can. Meeting point is the front entrance on the steps. We may then move to the back but look out for people holding lollipops or wearing high vis jackets. There will be a full council meeting too to decide on these things at 2.15pm which members of the public are welcome to attend. It doesn't matter which political parties we support. We ALL stand United for Children. Decisions on their safety are being made by a handful of people. We must ask them to forget party politics on Thursdays and think about innocent children who will be the victims of such decisions. We ask them to think about the fact that they are making a decision that may have an impact on their safety, on their life. We ask them to please forget politics on Thursday and to vote with their conscience, to think of only one thing when casting their vote: the children themselves, their own children or grandchildren. I was run over when I was 16 and know what a traumatic experience it can be. I was lucky, I survived. If we can save just one life by stopping this, it will have been worth all the efforts. Lucie